Just thought I would create a new topic for Pocket PC users to share their ideas and experience.
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My overall impressions so far: I love it!!!
Here is a quick review (More thorough review to come) of my PPC:
FAVORITE APPLICATIONS:
The funny thing is the application I was least impressed with is turning out to be one of my favorite features; Microsoft Reader. It's pretty damn cool! There are several ebooks you can download from
www.pocketpc.com, some of them are children's stories, but others are quite useful including the Encarta Dictionary. I'm reading the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" right now, and the text quality is superb. Even w/o my glasses or contacts I can still read the screen.
FAVORITE FEATURES:
And here is a must have feature for the Palm/Visor: When viewing a web page in Pocket Explorer/AvantGo, you can click on an email link within a web page and it automatically open a new email message ready to create and send. The same is true of an email message. I can view an email message with a hyperlink, to a web page, from within my INBOX, and clicking on that link will open Pocket Explorer! You will of course need a connection to the web to visit that page, but it's a very intuitive feature.
I was also surprised at how file syncing is actually more intuitive on the PPC. For example, if I want to place a file on my Visor I have to click on a file (a *.prc or *.pdb) which will then place it in the Hotsync install directory. I then have to perform a HotSync to send the file to my Visor. But with a Pocket PC the connection is always active, in other words, I can actually browse the files on my PPC from my PC just as I would a separate computer hard drive on a LAN network. There is a folder on my Desktop called "Pocket_PC" that I can drag'n'drop files to and from that will automatically send them to my handheld. I love it!!!
WHAT I DON'T LIKE:
So far, I haven't found any significant flaw. But I've only been using my new unit for 3 days, and I need more time to draw my final impressions. Overall though I will admit the Palm OS is slightly more "minimalist" than the Pocket PC OS, but it's not bad.
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